Refugees from a different kind of 'Nanny State'

6:54 PM,
Jul. 8, 2013

Alan Brody

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Alan Brody
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My youngest is an alumnus of Creative World Preschool Program Inc., where I left him on Oberlin Street one July morning in 1983 to begin his first adventures in coloring between the lines.

I hate to tell him that a later successor to that school, Traci Anderson's Creative World Child Development Center on Northgate Drive, will "voluntarily" close this week. It appears the place got on the bad side of the Department of Human Services after multiple inspection violations not satisfactorily addressed for two years.

The Press-Citizen's Tara Bannow reported last week that parents with children ...